Enhanced reclassification rules for automating the consolidation of investments for companies accounted for "at equity":
On posting level 30, read all data including data generated from a PCC task (preparation for consolidation group changes) by removing the reporting logic selection
Opt to read the percentage from the partner on posting level 30

Tighter integration of accounting and group reporting:
Addition of group reporting fields (such as the financial statement item) to the accounting universal journal
More-powerful, customer-specific field derivation by leveraging substitutions in accounting
Report-to-report navigation between group reporting and accounting analytics

Tighter integration of accounting and group reporting:
Introduction of group preparation ledgers in accounting
Addition of group reporting fields (such as the consolidation unit, financial statement item, partner unit, and subitem) to the group preparation ledger for the accounting universal journal
More-powerful, customer-specific field derivation by leveraging substitutions in accounting in a new group reporting business context for the new group reporting fields (FS item, subitem, and partner unit)
Realignment function in accounting enabling you to apply the latest substitution logic to existing posting material when creating reclassification documents in accounting
Application of group reporting substitution logic when carrying forward accounting balances
Support for one-to-one release of special-periods accounting data into special periods in group reporting
Incremental release of the latest data since the last release, creating delta documents in group reporting
New universal journal validation task log that includes breakdown checks and line-item validations for group reporting

Direct-pull data integration scenario for transferring accounting data from an SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) system directly into SAP S/4HANA for Group Reporting
SAP ECC:
Leveraging the existing Special Purpose Ledger API (BAPI_SL_GETTOTALRECORDS) with dynamic source table access, according to the ledger-assigned source table in table T881
Covering different general ledger scenarios such as New General Ledger, Special Purpose ledger, Cost of Sales ledger
Mapping with SAP Group Reporting Data Collection:
New source type for calling the SAP ECC API
New template mapping file for SAP ECC as a source

Ability of form designers to collect textual information from contributors by asking questions within the form such as:

Share assessment of all data shown in a form
Name financial auditor or tax advisor
Describe special depreciation methods
Describe policies for the preference of local suppliers
Support for questions and answers that:

Are created during form design in the Manage Forms app
Refer to a whole form or a larger context
Can be embedded in a form as dedicated text rows or columns
Can be checked with visual controls leveraging existing formula capabilities such as:
Raising a visual error if no text is entered
Making a question depend on conditions (for example, "If no numbers are present in the form, please explain.")

Enhance integration of group reporting with SAP Analytics Cloud, for planning consolidation scenarios:
Write data back from SAP Analytics Cloud to SAP S/4HANA Cloud for group reporting by pushing data from SAP Analytics Cloud to SAP S/4HANA Cloud for group reporting
Integrate with the status of the data collection task in the group reporting monitor

Allow customers to write their own program logic in the following areas:
Embed customer code that writes journals in a custom task
Assign document type to custom task
Call write journal API from customer code in a custom task
Call write journal API from an external customer application
Customer coded functions in field substitution and validation

Support change of local currency of the consolidation unit during the fiscal-year change in balance carry-forward:
Change the local currency key of the consolidation unit in the first period of the new year in the master-data record
Change of the behavior of auto-reversals in next year: reversals done by balance carry-forward
Currency translation of old local currency to new local currency during the balance carry-forward, including rounding
Note: Not part of the scope are enhancements to general ledger accounting

Additional features for the package manager (formerly known as the scenario manager):
Organize the availability of folders in the package by multiple steps of a staggered close data collection process
Assign a collection of forms and folders to packages and steps
Define the data entry context of each package by applicable versions, years, periods, consolidation units
Define “Enter DT total” read and write document type values at package level, instead of form level (share same settings between multiple forms)
Use productivity features such as specifying cons units by attribute, as of period or year, and copy or paste of packages

Enhance capabilities for reclassification rules:
Change source and destination dimension values for additional and custom fields in the method configuration
Support additional and custom fields for the balance check in sign-based reclassifications

Adjust data in a separate extension version accessing underlying reference versions with the following features:
Creation of a new extension version on top of a reference version for simulation or restatement purpose
Extension version to carry the delta amount to the underlying reference version
Process of the extension version includes:
Reading data from extension and reference version
Writing delta amounts to extension version
Asynchronous task processing of extension version and reference version with status consistency support for (open and close) periods
Option to use an advanced copy function of GRDC mapping to copy and transform data

Flexible derivation of the consolidation unit in the accounting group preparation ledger:
Company as an editable attribute in consolidation unit master data
Availability of the consolidation unit as a target field for substitutions in the business context "group reporting preparation ledger core fields"
Default substitution in case of only one single consolidation unit referring to the company ID of the transactional data
Possible realignment of incorrectly assigned consolidation units

Manual journal posting approval workflow, enabling:
Analysts or accountants to:
Create a draft manual journal
Check for consistency
Request an approval or the posting
Managers or approvers to:
Receive workflow item in their inbox
Check the manual journal
Approve, post, send for rework, or reject

Enhance integration of group reporting with SAP Analytics Cloud, for planning consolidation scenarios:
Write data back from SAP Analytics Cloud to SAP S/4HANA for group reporting by pushing data from SAP Analytics Cloud to SAP S/4HANA for group reporting
Integrate with the status of the data collection task in the group reporting monitor

Enable designers to create and add form-specific master data during the definition of a form using the dimension ad-hoc item of SAP S/4HANA for group reporting
Enable collection of data supplemental to regular group-reporting data, for example, to:
Split existing numbers into additional categories, defined via ad hoc items during form definition
Collect new numbers that exceed the scope of regular consolidation, on ad hoc items defined during form definition
Enable master data of the ad-hoc item dimension to be:
Controlled by group reporting data collection
Created ad-hoc during form design – with no group reporting governance involved
Combined with any other group reporting dimension, including financial statement items and custom dimensions

Enhanced reclassification rules:
Posting on level 30: read all data, including data generated from a preparation for consolidation group changes task (PCC), by removing the reporting logic selection
Adding an option to read the percentage from the partner on posting level 30

Improve usability when inserting new rows:
- automatically pre-fil dimension columns with useful values from a copied row
- Example: in C/I Activity based forms, 5 dimension values must be selected to be allowed to enter data. Enhancement:

automatically insert rows and pre-fill with some dimension values (e.g. Partner, Investee, subitem) so that only Investement Activity and Posting Date will remain to be selected
indicate by dedicated formatting when a dimension value is missing

Allow customers to write their own program logic in the following areas:
Embed customer code that writes journals in a custom task
Assign document type to custom task
Call write journal API from customer code in a custom task
Call write journal API from an external customer application
Customer coded functions in field substitution and validation

Enable designers to create and add form-specific master data during the definition of a form using the dimension ad-hoc item of SAP S/4HANA for group reporting
Enable collection of data supplemental to regular group-reporting data, for example, to:
Split existing numbers into additional categories, defined via ad hoc items during form definition
Collect new numbers that exceed the scope of regular consolidation, on ad hoc items defined during form definition
Enable master data of the ad-hoc item dimension to be:
Controlled by group reporting data collection
Created ad-hoc during form design – with no group reporting governance involved
Combined with any other group reporting dimension, including financial statement items and custom dimensions

Support change of local currency of the consolidation unit during the fiscal-year change in balance carry-forward:
Change the local currency key of the consolidation unit in the first period of the new year in the master data record
Change of the behavior of auto-reversals in next year: reversals done by balance carry-forward
Currency translation of old local currency to new local currency during the balance carry-forward including rounding
Not part of the scope are enhancements to general ledger accounting.

Support for solution activation and go-live of SAP S/4HANA for Group Reporting (GR) with a focus on the transfer of data from SAP Financial Consolidation (FC) as "legacy" application.
Export transactional data from SAP Financial Consolidation to Group Reporting Data Collection - Mapping
Example mapping definition to transform transactional data of an FC starter kit to GR best practice content item 1SG
Import transformed transactional data into GR

Modification of reporting rule-based reports (for example, cashflow statements) directly by:
Enabling users to use financial statement (FS) items of the "reporting item" type to write data using regular apps (for example, manual posting, flexible file import, or automatic tasks)
Allowing users to use FS items of the type "reporting item" in reporting rules to assign to the reporting item dimension values

Enhanced capabilities for reclassification rules:
Change source and destination dimension values for additional and custom fields in the method configuration
Support additional and custom fields for the balance check in sign-based reclassifications

Ability of form designers to ask questions within a form which can now refer to numbers, such as:

Explain deviations or gaps
Provide supplemental information to a value on particular data cells (for example, particular financial statement item changes)
Share assessment of key figures
Enhancement of the existing question and answers functionality with the capabilities to:

Relate to numbers or sets of numbers shown in the form
Expand dynamically with the dimensionality of the table (for example, ask the same question for each FS item of a list of FS items)
Use visual controls including number-based conditions (for example, “If threshold of 5% between numbers A and B is exceeded, please explain.”)

Adjust data in a separate extension version accessing underlying reference versions with the following features
Create a new extension version on top of a reference version for simulation or restatement purpose
Extension version carries the delta amount to the underlying reference version
process the extension version reading data from extension and reference version and writing delta amounts to extension version
Asynchronous task processing of extension version and reference version with status consistency support for (open/close) periods
optionally use advanced copy function of GRDC mapping to copy and transform data

Flexible derivation of the consolidation unit in the accounting group preparation ledger:
Company as an editable attribute in consolidation unit master data
Availability of the consolidation unit as a target field for substitutions in the business context "group reporting preparation ledger core fields"
Default substitution in case of only one single consolidation unit referring to the company ID of the transactional data
Possible realignment of incorrectly assigned consolidation units

Manual journal posting approval workflow, enabling:

Analysts or accountants to:
Create a draft manual journal
Check for consistency
Request an approval or the posting
Managers or approvers to:
Receive workflow item in their inbox
Check the manual journal
Approve, post, send for rework, or reject

Group ledger to provide a management view of intercompany business transactions
New posting logic to eliminate intercompany markups during relevant business transactions
Standard and actual costing to support the group view
Optional basis for group reporting
Initial availability only for greenfield customers

Ability to configure apps for review of group financial statement (the previously released review app and this new app) for customer configuration of content such as:
Pages
Sub-pages
Column and row structures
Formatting
New group financial review app on real-time accounting data (including unreleased data)
Expose universal ledger accounting data into an analytical group view through this new SAP Fiori app and making use of previously delivered road map items:
Integrate with group reporting for tighter accounting
Leverage the app to review group financial statements
New features of the new SAP Fiori app for Readily consumed reporting content in different pages based on master data from group reporting and reporting rule definitions:
Balance sheet
Profit and loss statement (cost of sales and nature of expense structure)
Cash flow statement
Predefined column and row structures:
Data release status to group reporting (released data in accounting, released data in group reporting, and unreleased accounting data)
Period comparison reporting (such as prior-year actuals)
Organizational hierarchies (consolidation unit, segment, and profit center)
Various measures, including month to date, quarter to date, and year to date, as well as local currency, transaction currency, group currency, and quantity
Export to Microsoft Excel and PDF
Navigation and drill-through capabilities from:
The financial review app on group reporting to this new app
This SAP Fiori app to analytical apps from accounting and group reporting (depending on the source of data)

Group ledger to provide management view of intercompany business transactions
New posting logic to eliminate intercompany markups during relevant business transactions
Standard and actual costing to support the group view

Integrate GRDC with group-reporting process control:

Run/Lock tasks from GRDC packages
Run validations from within a package of forms when entering data:
Display the result of relevant validations in forms
Support navigation from validation result log to the relevant form(s)

Configure the content of the SAP Fiori app, "Group Financial Statement Review Booklet":
Content of pages
Available subpage views with assigned queries and filters
Available column and row structures
Navigation targets

1. Analytical group view on accounting
Expose universal ledger accounting data into an analytical group view through this new SAP Fiori app and make use of previously delivered road map items:
Integrate with group reporting for tighter accounting
Leverage the app to review group financial statements
Tap into the following new features of the new SAP Fiori app:
Readily consumed reporting content in different pages based on master data from group reporting and reporting rule definitions:
Balance sheet
Profit and loss statement (cost of sales and nature of expense structure)
Cash flow statement
Predefined column and row structures:
Data release status to group reporting (released data in accounting, released data in group reporting, and unreleased accounting data)
Period comparison reporting (such as prior-year actuals)
Organizational hierarchies (consolidation unit, segment, and profit center)
Various measures: month to date, quarter to date, and year to date, as well as local currency, transaction currency, group currency, and quantity
Export to Microsoft Excel and PDF
Navigation and drill-thru capabilities:
From the financial review app on group reporting to this new app
From this SAP Fiori app to analytical apps from accounting and group reporting (depending on the source of data)
2. Consolidation Unit derivation flexibility
Open Consolidation Unit as target field for Group Reporting context in accounting journal posting.
Allow to break-up the company into multiple consolidation units (e.g. by segment slice)

Continuous task execution
Reproduce past data states in analyticsce)

Enable cell formatting capabilities:
background color
font formatting
alignment
border

Provide process- and data-related quality measures to enhance user knowledge of the quality of a specific report

Users can enter comments on values identified by a selected dimensionality. For comment maintenance they can use:
Forms in the SAP Group Reporting Data Collection solution: apps based on SAP Cloud Platform
An SAP S/4HANA analytical app
Regardless of their origin, comments are:
Displayed, edited, and deleted in either of the named apps
Designed to be audit-proof
Stored on SAP Business Technology Platform

Benefits

Capability View

Users can enter comments on values identified by a selected dimensionality. For comment maintenance they can use:
Forms in the SAP Group Reporting Data Collection solution: apps based on SAP Cloud Platform
An SAP S/4HANA analytical app
Regardless of their origin, comments are:
Displayed, edited, and deleted in either of the named apps
Designed to be audit-proof
Stored on SAP Business Technology Platform

Enhance navigation with "jump-to" feature between forms in packages, to provide more guidance when entering data in forms, this includes:

Links that can be defined between forms at design time
Transmission of the source-cell context, such as a user double-clicking on a cell containing the amount for sale of goods: opening this form to propose a split by partner (or other dimensions) by receiving the dimension context from the source cell

Offer a new consolidation monitor app with the following features:
Show list of tasks with detailed status information such as last time executed, last changed by, number of warnings or errors, period status, data monitor status
Filter by (multiple) version, consolidation group, period, task, status
Enable multitask actions such as run, block, and unblock
Enable multiple period actions open or close

Machine-guided analytics that direct users to reports of interest considering:
Abnormalities
Materiality
Previous user behavior in consuming reports

Integrate the BTP (Business Transformation Platform) based solution for advanced financial closing into the group reporting solution. Manage group reporting processes in advanced financial close.

Integrate the natural language processing (NLP) capabilities of the SAP CoPilot digital assistant into group reporting to support specific, NLP scenarios in group reporting